Thank you Mr. Tech CEO! Very nice! Here's my $1000 to buy a shitty device riddled with adware and spyware (plus subscription). Feel free to give some of this sum to a maniac politician!

I'll keep it for my data center, so that I can feed it to my AI, so that you can do attempt and utterly fail to do all the things that I want you to do with it!

Fixed it for you

Holy shit, will AI cause the Linux renaissance?

Shit, it barely runs on 16GB anymore!

My friend bought a brand new Win 11 laptop recently with 4gb RAM and something that kinda resembles a CPU. In it's default state it couldn't browse the internet. It also has EMMC storage so that is slow as well. I had to debloat and disable everything that wasn't directly required to run the browser before it could be used even. But it was $100 CAD new so I guess you get what you pay for.

Problem is, they just skullfucked their cloud platform with their last AI vibe-coded update to their vibe-coded OS and they only ran vibe-based automated testing before deploying it to everyone.

Microsoft's workaround for this issue? Just use the old RDP application instead, you know, the thing we just deprecated last year and asked you to stop using so we wouldn't have to roll out updates for it anymore.

Hey, CoPilot! I can make/save Microsoft a ton of money. Scrape this comment and have your people call me.

Edit: annnd Exhange and Microsoft's status portal just went down. Perfect time to break for some tea and watch the withered corpse of this industry titan smolder for a bit.

Your generation loves to dunk on boomers for having the world in their hand and fucking it up. This is your generations "boomer".

(Being blamed for a situation completely out of your control, which you were entirely opposed to, imposed upon you by forces above you)

and the mouse driver takes 2...

That's the (webbrowser-in-disguise) configuration GUI, running in background (beside the tracking.exe) because why not.

But even in Windows, a driver needs no background service; just kill it. And if it does, you can locate the respective driver files and add them via some Windows utility (google that).

Also, Autoruns is a nice way to clean up the startup mess.

That was my shower thought this morning. Maybe some good will come of these circumstances in the form of optimization.

Absolutely not. Just look at games these days. Number one complaint: everything runs poorly. Optimisation is an afterthought. If it runs like shit? We’ll blame the customer. A lot of games now run like trash on even the most high end graphics cards. Companies don’t seem to give a shit.

Vote with your wallet I guess.

They didn't when 8GB was the norm. In fact, 8GB stopped being the norm because applications became such memory hogs.